Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 21 - "Unity of G-D" Level 2 - שויתי ה׳ לנגדי תמיד

welcome to tonight's Tonya class tonight we are studying chapter huff Alif which is chapter 21 and chapter 21 is a very very important chapter of Chania and not only is an important chapter in the book of Tanya but it's actually an important chapter in the whole world of mysticism we know the mysticism as a world you know everything is really like a world and in the world of mysticism there's a few foundations and a few deep-rooted concepts which apply to a lot of issues and that is what's going to be discussed tonight in chapter 21 which is which is the idea of Actos Hashem the oneness of God now we discussed already a couple of weeks ago and how we got into this is to get everyone up to speed we were talking about the idea that the in the beginning of the tanja the altima writes that he's going to teach us how it is curved mold very near to each and every one of us to serve God with action speech and thought and the opposite is very easy to do so one of the ways the author explained how it's easy to do when you realize that every single Mitzvah big or small all comes from God and just like you would not want to get disconnected from God God forbid nobody want to do that but when you realize that every single litzler is technically a part of God and by doing it you connect to God by not doing it disconnecting God therefore it's very easy for you to automatically want to do all the mix folks because you want to be connected to God not to not do God forget any of the 365 negative Commandments and this way you won't get disconnected so last week after I start to explain the idea of the acquisition to show us how really everything all mitzvahs and everything in this world is part of God and today we're going to go into the idea of act as Hashem the unity of God in a much deeper level and that is as follows so we know that how did God create the world now obviously dart created the world he's an infinite God he does it in an infinite level we are finite even being so in order for us to relate to God and to how God does things we use terminology terminology and examples that we can relate to but referring to obviously on a spiritual level on a very powerful level of investments to God so you know it's brought down in many places that with varnish and remind NASA with deburr of God by God speaking the world creatives if we want to create something we really can't create so we want to put something together so we use our pans right use computers we use technology we use things to put things together that's the correct term it's because the old ultimate creators really got you don't create reformed things but how did God create the world so with the Faculty of DeBoer now what does it mean the Faculty of the work the faculty they were like we have speech so for example let's look at let's analyze speech that we have and we can relate it to God so for example we all know that we have obviously a godly soul we also have the idea of intellect raw intellect now what's wrong intellect the ability to understand things whether it's a Global Hawk mabini gas obviously there's different levels but the general concept is that through our Safehold through our intellect we could comprehend stuff it processes data now in the world of data it's data one plus one is two facts information it's all in the world of intellect now intellect is something you can sit a whole day not deal with any other person and think of thoughts whether your ideas someone else's ideas you don't really need to interact with other people it's an internal gift that God gave each and every one of us so we study Torah we use our intellect you know even when we pray we use our intellect for the intellectual comprehension of it or working at something so we use our mind but the mind is really an internal tool that you you can't really you can express your ideas and thoughts but your intellect does not communicate intellect is your internal processor to understand things etc our emotions are also our emotions how we feel that we can share verbally how you feel but feelings that's an internal thing you know sometimes you share how you feel sometimes you don't share you feel but you always feeling something you can be feeling numb too you can feel your excitement so feelings all the emotions that's already an internal power that we have then from intellect emotions comes thoughts they can be positive hopefully a more positive negative right can be negative thoughts whatever the thoughts are there are thoughts now thoughts are ready what's the idea of a thought in the world of Kabbalah the world of that I ever thought it creates structure and formation of your intellect intellectual ideas and your emotions so you can think about different ideas and feelings etc after you have these thoughts now the thoughts again are for who yourself you still haven't you still don't have the ability to communicate your intellect your emotions and your thoughts intellect doesn't speak emotions don't speak thoughts don't speak so you couldn't you have this whole world that you're brainstorming your feeling and you have all these already these thoughts that already more concrete so far it's all in your world here comes speech what a speech speech is when I can share with you my thoughts my feelings my ideas so speech really you let's see for example speech a real quality that I have if I didn't have to communicate with anybody to have it there's there a value to speech okay now just to make a disclaimer there is a certain value to speech when you talk about something it makes it clearer to you but in in in the real sense speech is not developing anything new it's your intellect it's your emotions and your thoughts so speech really the main purpose of speech is you said for yourself communicate to to others right unless you're stammering talk to yourself but generally speaking speech is to communicate with others action is whether you do external stuff but say focus on the speech so if I have this great idea that I thought about my feel it's right and they really classes my mind about my thoughts all these ideas how to do it and I want to present it to you so how do I do I say okay plug in my hard drive into you know I got to make a verbal presentation and say okay you know I had this idea I had this I think I feel great about it and these are these are the thoughts I have it and I share with you through verbally my speech you listen you can agree disagree and then obviously that goes into your thought your feeling and your intellect if you wish and pending on the on the how much you get involvement now so what I come and I present something to you the usually the speech is coming from where from within sorry me now you could just as they call you know this talk talk talk talk without putting any thought to it or idea or feelings or etc and that's possible too so speech is a vehicle to communicate pending on how connected it is to your source that's if it's going to be a thought-out idea a smart idea just or just an emotional feeling that you expressing etc so that is what speech accomplishes now we do know speech is very powerful why because with your speech you can make someone feel good and you can actually ruin someone's day also right speech a powerful speech can kill people and it's done it unfortunately and speech can empower people to live a great life a productive life a happy life inspire people to you know to study and to connect to God I mean how do you think Abraham reached all the people initially to be the first person out there helping people to turn to God he used the power of speech he can he can think of these ideas and he knew was the right thing but you didn't use his power of speech right now speech has a power to communicate inspire transform that's my key to the world now if speech really me know because I can say things hi welcome come have a seat I can say things that I disagree with or I totally think it's false or wrong because speech is really not me who knows but if I go ahead and say something is it mean that it's 100% me and my views not necessarily I can share with you someone else's views it doesn't necessarily mean that it's me why because speech even though it's coming from me it could be connected to me and it could be not connecting to me and you'll never know right you can make this amazing speech right you never wrote you never thought about for a second we did off a teleprompter and you can do to me that people can clap did a great presentation creating a positive way or you can say terrible things overheard people and guess what you have even spent a minute thinking about it feeling it or putting any effort into it why cuz speech could be connected or disconnected it doesn't necessarily mean it's connected or not now when God created the world what did he use what we say we didn't say he used the power of intellect that's from within or the power of what emotions or as thoughts even though thoughts obviously can also create things on some level but the power that God used to create the world is what speech the word the word the word of the words without getting an attention like for example at Kabbalah explain like let's say for example that they have a stone is Hebrew it's called an Evan Aleph bait nun so the spiritual life force comes from those three letters and so on and so forth but let's leave that aside that's discussed in a different place at length but here so when God created the world he uses speech now why are we using the analogy of speech but girls like humans to create you need speech you can give instructions secondly also when God created the world so it came from something external of himself because it was internal wouldn't create it would just be in his head or in his art or in his mind so the power of speech is what you used to create the world now there is however one big difference between link between God speech our speech what's the difference very simple by us our speech could be connected or not necessarily connected go both ways with God the speech of God is 100% connect with the God you know just like his intellect is part of God God's ideas right he's studying Tori is getting into God's ideas or his feelings it's connected to him or his thoughts his speech is also connected to him therefore now why is that important so when God went ahead and created this world this beautiful world that we have and it can be nice obviously if we do myths vote and study to over and pray etc when he created this world what he use speech now because God you'd speech and why did he use speech because that's what you use to create something external of yourself so to speak this speech that God used is connected to him if it's in God's one hundred connected so since the speech God used to create the world is connected to him so the thing that God created is that coming from God it's coming short time from God it's coming from the essence of God so now this physical world who created it God how did he create it from speech so God created from speech it's part of God so therefore this physical world the Chiri is sitting on the table the room the ear the lighting everything in this world ultimately who created everything God created and God created the speech that's connected to God so therefore is there a difference between the infinite part of God the internal part of God and the external part of God in this world no there's no difference there is no difference so since there is no difference so what that mean then when we explained last week we'll explain it again with the Baal Shem Tov says that what does it mean after such am the oneness of God not the simple definition that there's one God and there are no other gods besides that simple translation what is the motion to explain acquisition means what does oneness of God mean the only true existence that exists is what is God the only existence that exists on the spiritual world and obviously in our case in this physical world everything that you see hear touch smell taste guess what it's God and now which part of God the essence of God because there is no difference by God between external and internal it's all from God's and that is what the Baal Shem Tov said last week and it's explained now more in depth here that everything is God mean to say is every single thing that you see hear feel smell taste in this world is God God created it and connected to the essence of God it has a feel you ain't gone eternal you're wonderful you're in God's world you're in God's presence so here's the question if that is the case why don't we so connected always why don't we appreciate it well you have to be sure if you like and you appreciate it too short agreed won't we appreciate but why aren't we appreciate them why we connect why don't we see it how can we don't see if if God created it and comes from the essence of God how can we see tables and people and why do we disagree with some people why is there lack of peace and lack of joy and the answer is there's a term called and I'll say it and Hebrew explain it there's a term called in order for God create this physical world since God is infinite we're finite and he wanted to create final beings he had to create he antic a situation we can talk we can feel comfortable in this world and therefore he create he created the world via in Hebrew it's called a Simpson eight sensor means a concealment of light in other words and there's many different symptom in we're not going to go into each one we're gonna go talk about the general concept what does it symptom very simple if God was revealed right here right now though he's revealed in the infinite power of God do you think we would exist we wouldn't be but since God wanted to create a human beings that are finite things that are finite places that are finite time which is finite God had to create something which is called eight Simpson central means generally speaking a contraction God contractually contracted or concealed his infinite power and therefore the naked eye or the ear or the nose or the mouth etc sees and feels what physical things materialistic things and doesn't see the truth of the real power that the real power is got so what do we see and feel between those and finite things not necessarily God per se now he got did that so here so no so that's why we will see and feel materialism materialism physical things we're not gonna fear not gonna see and feel godliness but if that's the case that God create that concealment so the one second it's a catch-22 if you're saying God concealed themselves so then when I see walls and tables and cheers and people etc and arrogance is that real and unreal if God can seal themselves and never we see materialism we see things that don't look like God why can't we just say that's not God these a God or not God if God created a concealment that means maybe God allow for something else to be existent other than God so as we're saying is after such a means that everything is God this table is God here we're saying of God concealed themselves God contracted his infinite energy so maybe he did create something which is not godly and the answer is very very simple let's say for example there's a bright light coming into this room and let's say that wool was a glass wool and we're trying to you know live a life but it's too bright Sun comes out too right so we go ahead and we put up a brick wall block up the whole wall what happens now the light comes in in essence we really created a symptom or a type of a type of a symptom where the light cannot come in now is there the light of the Sun in this room absolutely not why because there's a wall that's conceived not allowing it to come in so when you look at the world you see the Sun no you see a wall the difference is the wall and the Sun are two different components however when God made the concealment who made the concealment god what is the concealment yes what is the concealment godly energy that concealed it so it's here you have to take it slowly who made the concealment God what is the concealment not something which is not God like the wool which is not the Sun the concealment this God Himself you got it God made the concealment and the concealment itself is God so here let's say God was revealed here right now we would all see God God conceals himself well guess what we see a physical table is this God or not God sure it's God because it's not like God created something a new existence we he's creating this table which was not part of God he created a new existence it wouldn't exist so the table itself is part of God so what other words like this from God's perspective the way God's use the world it's all God's the only thing is he didn't delights in certain areas the spiritual light from our per second we look that's infinite God up in the sky here from looking from this side Oh tables cheers things right etc Eagle arrogance right here let me give you an example another example let's say a teacher was teaching a class teacher is teaching a class now the teacher for example as he knows was the whole town would all the mission the whole Bible the whole homeless etc and he's teaching students that are first learning the alphabets and he starts okay tell you well just what I'm upgrading you guys we're gonna learn now missioner in Talmud's is you're gonna blow their minds or what they're gonna what we're learning up I scare them he's gonna figure them off too big of a light too much you got to teach from olive Bay's your mole etc now the teachers dying to teaching the whole mission er the whole town would maybe even some mysticism too but guess what are they ready for it no yes he has traits be patient so what does he teach them today we're learning Alice the letter Alif and he shows them how its structured the top and the bottom and the line in between etc voila great today they learned an Aleph and tomorrow the bays and so on and takes a lifetime till you learn how to read and then you learn polish and so on and so forth now the student that's learning walks home today and mom says hey what'd you teacher teach you Alif in the kid's mind the only thing in the kid the child's mind make leave you that child in your mind that's you with a student what do you think the teacher knows just that loss that's all that's all he revealed to you now let me ask you a question the teacher only know an hour you know him right your dad learns him in synagogue you know homeless and miss Turner and mysticism right he knows it all no could he come in and teach everything no it's same idea God is everything and everywhere just like the teacher knows it all but does he give us everything in one shot no we're not ready so he gives us a table now for smart and we think and we military we realize guess what is this anything other than God God put leaves we can have a table we can enjoy you can be comfortable and slowly right he educates us and he feeds us and so on and so forth so ultimately this materialistic fizzle his physical world compared to God does it have really any value is this world not godly sure it's Gaga Venus so here is the key point the key point that what when we go back to the idea of after session oneness of God what does oneness of God mean the whole world everything in the world is God everything not only is a god it's part of the inner depth of God the reason why we see a physical world we don't see a godly world per se it's because God is hiding himself a little bit he created that symptom but is that symptom affecting God absolutely not God has it all and as we're ready guess what happens we'll see we'll see more think about it let's see if you have a gifted child and that's in the grade some reason he has magical gifts and all of a sudden huh he maxed in the olive within 3 seconds and he's just a teacher teacher I want to come at night into your house I want you to teach me the whole Torah and he can go he can teach you everything but what happened to happen that student had to come to the teacher and guess what the teacher will teach him at all so when we basically say you know what thank you for the table I want to see who made this table like Abraham Raven was alive everyone lived then but Abraham said I got it nice world know who made this world somebody's making it happen and he any before right before he went to guys of God who made this happen I want to know where the creator of all the stuff was and guess what I'm when he searched out to God God said okay great you wanting for more I'll give you more and he gave yes what when he gave him tests he said you're really ready for more let me show you what God is which was a basically a test could Abraham is he ready to accept and say God give me more after that and guess what he did and he tested him one after I tell pen test what did Abraham realize there's one God it's all from God and Abraham obviously advanced in it and once he learned about the oneness of God he taught it to his children and his children to his children etc now as you can tell from here this concept is a very very important concept it happens to be the basis of mysticism because once a person realizes that it's all about the oneness of God you have a lot of questioners why if it's all God then why you know how is evil and how come this challenges and how can you know sicknesses I mean the questions go on and on but once the premise is there I know it's all from God I know everything is God not all from God it's not all from God everything is God means there's nothing in this world that's not God so once you get that as a reality you might have questions and you probably all have questions but as you continue to meditate on it and you study mysticism and you study Kabbalah and you study different you know authors that wrote from an authentic place about it and not only do you study it intellectually where it makes sense worms after it makes sense guess what you have to feel it if the feel it in your bones you have to experience it are you really know intellectually we can all understand things and we came in the stand things that don't make sense because that's the power of intellect it's like very powerful but now the question is not only do I understand it do I actually feel it do I feel it do I believe it do I live it that what it's all from God because if you believe if you understand and actually believe that it's all from God think we're atoms to your face is the faith and a higher and a low higher faith is the highest think if you really believe everything is from God it means whatever happened to you or anyone else in the world so in the morning till at night and obviously through the night is all God and from God guess what happens now faith is high is your life peaceful sure because if it's one it's one it's peace if it's one it's peace is the arc full of joy yes absolutely so in other words if you take this concept of act as a sham which is a deep concept even it's a short chapter but if you take this concept of acquisition and you really think about it and you really feel it you will have a a paradigm shift in every aspect of your life every part of your day every interaction and anything you study will all be totally different you're totally study will be different because you're gonna be connecting to God on a very pure level your prayer is gonna be a whole different experience because now you're gonna be talking to God as God is like a reality around you now a god somewhere up there somewhere you know my grandparents how to relationship with him it's gonna be your God in everything that you do that your father's guys know it could be your father's got also but it becomes your ground also a lo que nous our God yes I'm okay ahh bra accepted shorts you don't want to take away anything your parents your grandparents it's theirs as well but what happens when you stop believing in aksum that was a good point it becomes your God it becomes your God too because you are God also when you say it's a short chapter there's no reason it's for it not to be a short chapter it's I mean exactly yeah that's it exactly everything else from there yes becomes our discussion our finite is version correct absolutely absolutely they'll help you in your Torah study I'll help you in your in your prayer and every time you will do a mitzvah the myths will become alive because we don't have to light the Shabbos candles you will see and feel God and godliness in that experience or if you're putting on chi'lan it's not just black boxes that people call it it's God they're not only in there I'm there all of it Shabbat becomes what not just a day we do this we can't do that no we're connecting to God and you see God in every single aspect every part of the commandments kashrut becomes a natural I want things and God said it's for me to eat and things are not fitting I don't touch speaking gossip God says no gossip God says no slander so we don't do that why because it's all God what happens is literally every Mitzvah becomes very easy you can't dislike anybody it's all about peace and happiness in other words once you really get this and think about it and meditate on it you will have such a clarity of understanding what the author writes in the beginning of the tanya key car i've a la caja de ver muroid the feet are both of colosso so based on the verse in Deuteronomy that you will be able to do all the let's vote pray saying or anything is supposed to say in your heart you'll have the proper love and all for God but what color of mutt woods can be so easy for you so it's agreed it's a little hard work initially to really get the idea of the oneness of God that the only one thing that really exists is God not only get it but meditate on it feel it live it then anything and everything you do will be done easily because you'll be connected to the true oneness of God